[Bug - Calibre 2.51, Win10 x64] ToC Editor cannot move titles

[Katsunami]

Well, I've been testing this, as I know my mousework is less than precise due to my poor eyesight. I also hold my mouse a bit slanted; the 'nose' of the mouse points a few degrees right of exact north.

I've been trying weird/sloppy ways of nesting the entries, but the result seems completely random. Sometimes I pick up the selection somewhere in the middle, and it doesn't work, not even when trying to move exactly North. Another time I pick up the selection and I go North-East, or even (when picking it up at the right-hand side) North-West, and it works.

I do have the best success-fail ratio when picking up the first item in the selection, however.

The only thing I haven't tested is the calibre theme style. I can test it to see if it makes a difference, but even if it does, I won't switch to it. I find the sytem style to look better (at least on Windows).

By the way: what is the reason that selecting multiple entries and then pressing CTRL-Right does not work? Is it just not implemented, or is there a technical/QT-reason it can't be done?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

At the risk of you all thinking I'm completely nuts ...


If I select my Level2's and drag East before going North it fails every time with the No Entry icon (red circle with diagonal bar). Somewhere between North and East is the tipping point.

P.S. Forgot to say Win7 64 with calibre 32-bit, currently using v2.47 but the problem has been around a very long time.

Similar experience (and it is also there in 2.0 on XP using the TOC icon tool)
Once it fails, you need to clean (flatten the affected section)

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by theducks

Similar experience (and it is also there in 2.0 on XP using the TOC icon tool)
Once it fails, you need to clean (flatten the affected section)

I never had to flatten anything. Sometimes, just trying to move the entries again will work. The workaround always works: drag the selection out of the list, and then drag it to the entry it needs to go under.

[kovidgoyal]

Note that there are two drop modes -- when a single black line is shown, it means the drop will place the dropped items at the same level. When a black box is shown it means that the dropped items will be places as children of the boxed item. Now if you have

a
b
c

and you try to drop b, c on a when only a single black line is shown, it will refuse, because b, c are already immediately below a. You have to make sure the black box is showing when you drop.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Note that there are two drop modes -- when a single black line is shown, it means the drop will place the dropped items at the same level. When a black box is shown it means that the dropped items will be places as children of the boxed item. Now if you have

a
b
c

and you try to drop b, c on a when only a single black line is shown, it will refuse, because b, c are already immediately below a. You have to make sure the black box is showing when you drop.

Thanks for that tip.
I am sure klutzyness on my part is triggering my issue.